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曼孔(Mankon)王国藏在喀麦隆西部省(草原区)的山里。1980年代以来它和非洲其他王国一道经历了一次复兴运动。但国王对近300年以来塑造着王国生活的所有行为了如指掌。他的身体里含有并保持着某些物质,这些物质在祭祖仪式上转化为古老的生命物质。他把这些物质播撒到整个王国。他是“锅王”的化身,是王国生命物质的容器。他和他的所有臣民通过“皮肤”或者接触结成一体。这是王国的物质和身体文化的一部分。由君主与臣民实行的这种感觉运动行为和物质文化,可用福柯的主体化治理术来分析。福柯的著作写于西方,用来解释这个王国中权力的微观物理学却非常贴切。这些行为难以言状,又包含着臣服(subjection)和主体化(subjectivation)这两种社会机制(dispositif)的基本要素,因此福柯的著作使人们能对这些实践进行新的比较研究。
The kingdom of Mankon is hid in the hills of the western province of Cameroon (prairie zone). Since the 1980s it has undergone a revival movement with other African kingdoms. But the king knew all the acts that shaped life in the kingdom nearly 300 years ago. His body contains and maintains certain substances that have been transformed into ancient living things during the sacrificial ceremony. He sowed these things to the entire kingdom. He is the embodiment of “Pot King”, a container of the material life of the kingdom. He and all his subjects are united by “skin” or contact. This is part of the kingdom’s material and physical culture. This sensory exercise and material culture, carried out by monarchs and subjects, can be analyzed by the subjective administration of Foucault. Foucault’s writings are written in the West and the micro-physics used to explain power in this kingdom is very apt. These actions are unspeakable, and contain the basic elements of subjection and subjectivation. Therefore, Foucault’s work enables people to carry out a new comparative study of these practices.